Oral history interview with Barbara Jones, 1990.

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Oral history interview with Barbara Jones, 1990.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122598207

Childhood and early education, Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh; acquaintance with Kenneth and Mamie Clark through mutual friend; Secretary to Mamie Clark, 1948-1979, Northside Center for Child Development [Northside], continuation of duties following Mamie Clark's resignation, 1985; additional responsibilities in fundraising; variety, scope of fundraising arrangements; egalitarian work environment, fairness of sliding scale fees; board/ staff parties, sense of community; jump in staff size with move to Schomburg building; changes in policy with the arrival of Medicaid; weathering of financial crises; Northside's approach, reputation, influence in the field.

Transcript: 48 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Northside Center for Child Development

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The Northside Center for Child Development is a child guidance clinic for troubled children in New York City founded in 1946 by Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark and Dr. Kenneth B. Clark. From the guide to the Northside Center for Child Development records, 1947-1972, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Clark, Mamie.

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Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983

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Kenneth Clark was an art historian and a patron of the arts. He was born in London, and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained a second class in modern history. In the autumn of 1925, art historian Bernard Berenson asked him to assist him in the revision of his corpus of Florentine drawings. In 1929 he was offered the task of cataloguing Leonardo da Vinci's drawings held at Windsor Castle. In 1931 he was appointed keeper of the Department of Fine Art at the Ashmolean...

Lee, Jonathan, 1960-

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Jones, Barbara Stewart

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Secretary, fundraiser. From the description of Oral history interview with Barbara Jones, 1990. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122598207 Barbara Jones was a graduate student at the University of Delaware, completing her master's degree in 1964. She wrote her M.A. thesis on Deborah Logan. Jones was a member of the guiding staff of Winterthur Museum. Deborah Norris Logan (1761-1839) was the daughter of Charles and Ma...